{"query": "Easton: Generation", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_e2dd406a0837", "title": "Easton: Generation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Gen. 2:4, “These are the generations,” means the “history.” 5:1, “The book of the generations,” means a family register, or history of Adam. 37:2, “The generations of Jacob” = the history of Jacob and"}, {"id": "card_n_e04d8ca9fba8", "title": "Easton: Tradition", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Any kind of teaching, written or spoken, handed down from generation to generation. In Mark 7:3, 9, 13, Col. 2:8, this word refers to the arbitrary interpretations of the Jews. In 2 Thess. 2:15; 3:6, "}, {"id": "card_n_feeec4a61417", "title": "Psalm 78 — Psalm 78", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<A contemplation by Asaph.>> Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old, Which we have heard and known, "}, {"id": "card_n_e78d0d591b18", "title": "Easton: Sadducees", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The origin of this Jewish sect cannot definitely be traced. It was probably the outcome of the influence of Grecian customs and philosophy during the period of Greek domination. The first time they ar"}, {"id": "card_n_657fa07e9e39", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_xxxi: To comprehend the whole world together in thy mind, and the whole course of t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To comprehend the whole world together in thy mind, and the whole course of this present age to represent it unto thyself, and to fix thy thoughts upon the sudden change of every particular object. Ho"}, {"id": "card_c_635abec2a595", "title": "Easton: Generation references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_de6424ea9338", "title": "Easton: Generation references Hebrews", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Hebrews. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_8b344e295909", "title": "Easton: Hermas", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mercury, a Roman Christian to whom Paul sends greetings (Rom. 16: 14). Some suppose him to have been the author of the celebrated religious romance called The Shepherd, but it is very probable that th"}, {"id": "card_n_e8cecc35099b", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_v: As generation is, so also death, a secret of nature's wisdom: a mixture of el...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As generation is, so also death, a secret of nature's wisdom: a mixture of elements, resolved into the same elements again, a thing surely which no man ought to be ashamed of: in a series of other fat"}, {"id": "card_n_1357a50f1ba6", "title": "Martyrdom of Polycarp XXI", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Now, the blessed Polycarp suffered martyrdom on the second day of the month Xanthicus just begun, the seventh day before the Calends of May, on the great Sabbath, at the eighth hour. He was taken by H"}, {"id": "card_c_449ba0794da7", "title": "Easton: Generation references Abraham", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Abraham (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_n_e2da2944e15f", "title": "Easton: Age", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Used to denote the period of a man’s life (Gen. 47:28), the maturity of life (John 9:21), the latter end of life (Job 11:17), a generation of the human race (Job 8:8), and an indefinite period (Eph. 2"}, {"id": "card_n_b42234543200", "title": "Easton: Ephraim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Double fruitfulness (“for God had made him fruitful in the land of his affliction”). The second son of Joseph, born in Egypt (Gen. 41:52; 46:20). The first incident recorded regarding him is his being"}, {"id": "card_n_9239bcbc20ad", "title": "1 Clement VII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "These things, beloved, we write unto you, not merely to admonish you of your duty, but also to remind ourselves. For we are struggling on the same arena, and the same conflict is assigned to both of u"}, {"id": "card_n_1e6acbf52c16", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_024: But you, chosen generation, you weak things of the world, who have forsaken a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But you, chosen generation, you weak things of the world, who have forsaken all, that ye may follow the Lord; go after Him, and confound the mighty; go after Him, ye beautiful feet, and shine ye in th"}, {"id": "card_n_f2924f2030c7", "title": "Easton: Adultery", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Conjugal infidelity. An adulterer was a man who had illicit intercourse with a married or a betrothed woman, and such a woman was an adulteress. Intercourse between a married man and an unmarried woma"}, {"id": "card_n_b53a6ffe5d4c", "title": "Easton: Zechariah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah is renowned or remembered. (1.) A prophet of Judah, the eleventh of the twelve minor prophets. Like Ezekiel, he was of priestly extraction. He describes himself (1:1) as “the son of Berechiah."}, {"id": "card_n_3e92bb4efc83", "title": "Easton: Ammonite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The usual name of the descendants of Ammon, the son of Lot (Gen. 19:38). From the very beginning (Deut. 2:16-20) of their history till they are lost sight of (Judg. 5:2), this tribe is closely associa"}, {"id": "card_n_6a1ad41c91c1", "title": "Easton: Rehoboam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "He enlarges the people, the successor of Solomon on the throne, and apparently his only son. He was the son of Naamah “the Ammonitess,” some well-known Ammonitish princess (1 Kings 14:21; 2 Chr. 12:13"}, {"id": "card_n_c4daf1711ed6", "title": "Easton: Genesis", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The five books of Moses were collectively called the Pentateuch, a word of Greek origin meaning “the five-fold book.” The Jews called them the Torah, i.e., “the law.” It is probable that the division "}]}